Retroware has formally introduced the Programancer developed The Transylvania Journey of Simon Quest, a side-scrolling motion recreation based mostly on the questionable Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. It’s coming to PC, Change, PlayStation, and Xbox someday in 2025.

Some individuals like the sport and that’s okay, however Simon’s Quest is the form of recreation I put up on the post-mortem desk to dissect it to seek out what went flawed. There’s positively worse on the NES, however it’s fairly tough to discover a worse recreation within the Castlevania collection. Uh, hmm… Let’s attempt. Perhaps one of many early laptop ports. How’s the DOS model?

Anyway, it had some good concepts combined in there, and that appears to be what The Transylvania Journey of Simon Quest appears to look to evoke. It has an “optionally available” nonlinear development and a day/evening cycle. The graphics take an identical (however much less drab) aesthetic, with the principle character specifically being extraordinarily paying homage to Simon Belmont.

However this isn’t Simon Belmont; it’s legally distinct Simon Belmont named Simon Quest. There are minigames, customizable problem, and “Richter slide kicking.” Technically, I believe he bought the sliding factor from Maria Renard, however I’m being pedantic. Mr. Quest is jealous that his rival, Stan Helsing, defeated legally disti… oh, no, it’s simply Dracula. So, he travels round making an attempt to revive Dracula so he can beat him, too. Seems like a terrific concept.

Appears nice. Castlevania is certainly one of my favourite recreation collection, and I really feel like we haven’t gotten the stiff, stompy, traditional fashion of the collection for a very long time. Perhaps Konami will hand the license to somebody who will do it justice, however for now, we will drown our sorrows in The Transylvania Journey of Simon Quest.

Or, we will when The Transylvania Journey of Simon Quest launches in 2025 to PC, Change, PlayStation, and Xbox.